To amend the Health Professions Act, 1974, as amended, so as to provide for some definitions, to provide for the general powers of the council, to provide for the constitution of the council, to provide for the requirements for removal of members from the office, to provide for the absence of the president from council meetings, to provide for the appointment of registrar and staff, to provide for the establishment of professional boards, to provide for the investigation of members whose names have been removed from the register, to provide for the control over education and training, to provide for the registration as a prerequisite for practise, to provide for the keeping of register by the registrar, to provide for the removal and restoration of names from the register, to provide for the publication of register by electronic means, to provide for the particulars to be contained in the certificate of status for registration to be issued by the registrar, to provide for qualifications prescribed for registration and for registration of persons holding qualifications not prescribed for registration, to provide for compliance of conditions relating to continuing professional development as a prerequisite, to provide for the registration and use of additional qualifications, registration of specialities, professional categories and additional professional categories, to provide for penalties for medical practitioners or interns while unregistered, to provide for penalties for practising as a registered counsellor, to provide for the penalties for dental prosthesis, who practise whilst unregistered, to provide for inquiry by professional boards into charges of unprofessional conduct, to provide for the Minister to make regulations relating to unprofessional conduct, to provide for the death of a person undergoing a procedure of a therapy, diagnose or palliation, to provide for the regulations relating to professional boards, educational institution and facilities, to provide for the rules relating to fees payable in terms of this Act.